Science news articles about 'outer asteroid belt'

... in our solar system, while the outer asteroid belt holds 20 times more material. Moreover, ... years old, theorists calculate that our Kuiper Belt looked about the same as that of Epsilon Eridani. Since ...

... scattered across the solar system and into the outer asteroid belt during a violent phase of planetary ... system, the cool hangout for small objects is the asteroid belt," says Dr. William Bottke of SwRI ...